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Friday, July 19, 2019
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How Child Protective Services Can Trap the Parents They’re Supposed to Help
by Elizabeth Brico
A byzantine process to access required services has left the author with no idea when she’ll be reunited with her children.
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How Medicaid Cuts Almost Forced A Disabled Student to Drop Out
by Laura Dorwart
When disabled Georgetown student Anna Landre heard her personal assistance was being cut, she feared she’d have to drop out of school.
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New Report: Racial Disparities in Home Appreciation
by Michela Zonta
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Segregation, limited access to credit, and the devaluation of homes in black neighborhoods make it impossible for black families to build wealth through homeownership.
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Off-Kilter: #TexasVsUS
Ian Millhiser recaps the oral arguments in Texas vs. U.S., the latest lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, and David Dayen, editor in chief of the American Prospect, explains private equity’s latest scheme: closing urban hospitals and selling off the real estate.
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What We’re Reading
This Land Is Whose Land? Three-quarters of African Americans do not have a will, which leaves heirs at risk <[link removed]> even when property has been in their family for generations, and private equity firms are setting their sights on public hospitals <[link removed]> as the new sites for luxury condos.
What's Eating Rural America? Some rural towns are struggling with so few lawyers <[link removed]> that it’s unethical for them to represent their own clients, and schools are torn <[link removed]> between low enrollment or closing and forcing students to travel.
Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter. Burning sugarcane for harvest is making low-income people of color sick <[link removed]>, and a Gulf war veteran turns his no-nonsense attitude into an environmental crusade. <[link removed]>
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Hillbillies Need No Elegy
The new book Appalachian Reckoning brings together dozens of mountain voices to respond to J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. This excerpt dives into what it‘s like to live in a place where descriptions by outsiders carry more weight than the lived experiences of people in the community <[link removed]>.
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